Publication Details

Journal


Citation: Colgan, N. 1908 The ship-worm and wood-boring crustaceans in Kingstown Harbour. Irish Naturalist 17: 9-14


Number of Pages: 6

Keywords: Crustacea, Fauna, Marine, Mollusca

Abstract: Paper discusses the activities and resulting destruction to wooden structures by the Ship-worm Teredo novegica (a mollusc) and the wood-boring crustaceans Chelura terebrans and Limnoria lignorum, found at Carlisle Pier at Kingstown (now known as Dun Laoghaire), Co. Dublin.